Vol. 14 No. 1 (2008): História Quantitativa e Serial
Dossiê

About a price history of colonial Brazil: methodological issues

Angelo Alves Carrara
UFJF

Published 2020-08-12

Versions

Keywords

  • história de preços; Brasil colônia; taxa de câmbio

How to Cite

Angelo Alves Carrara. 2020. “About a Price History of Colonial Brazil: Methodological Issues”. Locus: History Journal 14 (1). https://doi.org/10.34019/2594-8296.2008.v14.31578.

Abstract

Price history in Brazil is not a theme that have at tracted many historians. However, many researchers have in the last few years proceeded to building price series as a central resource, namely to the period after 1808, but the same is not true for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.This article aims at introducing some methodologial issues concerning the building of price series, with special attention to the possibilities of constructing a conversion factor to some currencies in the period.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.